[cctalk] Re: Some small corrections RE: Ramac : The real first disk drive? and RE: Floppy disk

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jun 12, 2026, at 2:03 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I am pretty sure it was 100 six-bit characters plus a parity bit and a stop 
> bit, so the recorded character was indeed 1 byte but to say it was 100 bytes 
> that would be like adding the formatting, ECC and header to the 512 or 4 KiB 
> industry standard sector.  Many do, I don’t 😊

Or like Fibre Channel measuring link speed in code bits rather than data 
(payload) bits as other networks do.

        paul